A Girl in WinterThis classic novel captures twelve transformative hours in the life of an exiled woman living in England and working at a library during World War II. |
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... stood for a moment by the loaded book - trolley , looking up the long avenue that opened between the oblique shelves up to the counter . Both of them wore red overalls . The high windows were frosted over , and the double row of hanging ...
... stood in front of this, where a disintegrating cigarette-end floated. Everything was very untidy: around the walls between bookcases and filing cabinets were stacked books and box-files that had not been referred to for months. Then ...
... stood . She waited in front of him , looking with distaste at his bent head . As though she were not there , he got up and rummaged in a file , looking cross . The smoke from his pipe smelt sweetish . Not till he was settled back at his ...
... stood waiting in the entrance-hall of the library, three minutes later, as she had been bidden. This was a dim, unheated place, with double swing-doors leading out into the street: two sets of glass doors lay on either side> to the ...
... stood. So a week ago she had been waiting anxiously for a reply. And it had come—not from Jane, which was understandable in the circumstances, but from Mrs. Fennel, written on the same notepaper that Robin had used, with the house and ...